February 25, 2015 - Alburnus Maior together with Bucureşti Association are pleased to announce the tourist offer “Visit Rosia Montana - 2015" and to invite supporters of the Save Rosia Montana Campaign to spend their May Day holiday (1 – 4 May) in this place in the Apuseni Mountains. Local people in Rosia Montana will welcome those willing to spend four days of trekking and fun - participants will be accommodated at agro-tourism guest houses opened by the locals who believe in alternatives to cyanide mining.

Bucharest, 4 February 2015 – On Friday, 6 February 2015 Rosia Montana celebrates 1884 years since its first documented evidence. Alburnus Maior, the Latin name of Rosia Montana, was mentioned for the first time on the wooden wax tablet no. XVIII found in the local mines and dated 6 February 131. On this occasion, Save Rosia Montana Campaign organizes the fifth edition of Rosia Montana’s Anniversary in more than 20 cities in Romania and internationally.

Legea Distrugerii Rosiei Montane

Roşia Montană în UNESCO

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The project status

In July 2012 RMGC obtained an archaeological dischargecertificate for the Carnic Massif, reaching, in this way, an extremely important objective for the feasibility of the project. The new certificate was issued after the old certificate, obtained in 2004, was annulled through a non-contestable decision of the High Court of Cassation and Justice. In the Carnic Massif there are archaeological relics protected as monuments of national interest. The decision of the Court was based on numerous declarations by expert archaeologists and institutions, among them the Romanian Academy, which demonstrated that the existence of the archaeological relics is incompatible with the processes specific to open cast mining. The newarchaeological dischargecertificate is currently submitted to Court.

At the same time, RMGC is waiting for an Order of Declassification from the Ministry of Culture, which would result in the elimination of the Carnic Massif from the list of historic monuments. This order should be discussed and proposed by the National Commission for Historic Monuments, but this commission has recommended the inclusion of Rosia Montana on the UNESCO Universal Heritage List.

The Orlea Massif, the second of the four mountains which would be destroyed, is also registered on the list of historic monuments. No archaeological research has been developed in this massif and RMGC has not obtained an archaeological dischargecertificate.